Lion Heart: Healing with Heart The Lion Heart Medical Centre is a second-line health facility located in Yele, the rural heart of Sierra Leone. It was founded by the Lion Heart Foundation. The direct catchment area of the hospital is roughly 100.000 people from the surrounding communities, but patients also travel from far beyond. With a capacity of 80 beds divided over male, female, paediatric, i
solation and maternity wards, the hospital provides good and timely basic health care services. The hospital is fully equipped with an operating theatre, x-ray machine, biochemistry analyzer and more. Main targets groups include the under-fives and pregnant women. With around 70 local staff members and 2 expatriates, 10.000 patients are treated annually. Goal of the Lion Heart Foundation is to support the hospital on its way to being a self-sustainable organisation, fully handed over to the local management team in Sierra Leone. Our mission has succeeded when the support from Lion Heart Foundation is not longer necessary and Lion Heart Medical Centre has become independent. For our mission to succeed, we will need the help from local and foreign sponsors to fund projects that will bring us closer to this goal, one step at a time. For more information visite www.lion-heart.nl
